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port accompanying the substitute is identi.
cal with that drawn up by the subcommjt.
tee. The senate resolutions on the memory
of the late John A. Logan were taken up and
adopted. after remarks by Messrs. Thomas
0lL), Henderson QlL), Mckinley, Randall
Cannon, Springer, Adams Qll.), Powell, DIN,
lei, Butterworth, Holman, Henderson Uowal
McCOmas, Weaver (Neb), Wilson W. va
C]utcheon, Rice, OHara, Osborne and Ander,
son (OhiOC. -
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17-Mr. Miller intro.
duced a bill to appropriate money to pay the
cost Of drilling wells over three thousand
feet deep in every state and in seven terri.
tories, aud to give all the profits of the valu.
able minerals found therein for school Dur.
poses. Mr.. WhitthOrne introduced a bill Ia
create a naval reserve in auxiliary cruisers
officers and men from the mercantile marine
of the United States The senate-45 to =
passed Hale's bill for the increase of the
naval establishment The nays were: Messrs
Coke, Jones ARK }, Plumb, Vance, Van WICK
Vest and Voorhees, The bill provides for
the construction of heavily armored vessels
for coast defense ana also for gun boats and
torpedo boats, and apprOpriating $40, 400.
900 to be available during five years from
March i, 1887. The house bill to establish
the order of promotion in the medical de.
partment of the army passed. The senate
resumed consideration of the Eads Tehuau-
tepec ship railway bill, and Mr.. Vest offered
a substitute to the bill.
H LOWER BRANC
BY a vote SO to 100, the house refused TO
pass the Texas seed bill over the veto. When
the house had disposed of the Mormon bill
and the diplomatic appropriation bill, Mr.
Kendall, from the committee no app Opria-
lions, reported back the sundry civil service
appropriation bill, with senate amendments
recommending concurrence in twenty-five,
and inconvenience in 236 amendments
The chief nNinrC in nOntrOunpCau HAyora rol,
tive to the appropriations for the coast sur,
Vey and the seamen's retreat in New York
ENATE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1S.-The senate TOOK
uD the river and harbor appropriation bill.
The bill reported by the committee on com.
merce as a substitute for the bill passed by
the house was read, and various amend.
ments were offered by the chairman of the
committee. Mr.. Mcmillan, and adopted
These were generally an increase of amounts
of various items. On motion of several
senators, other items were increased MI.
Edmunds moved to strike out of section 8,
which provides for the requirement by con.
demnation of lands or material necessary in
the prosecution of works of improvement,
the proviso authorizing the secretary of war,
when the price asked by the owner shall be
reasonable, to purchase the property with,
out further delay. Defeated-Yeas II, nays
81. The section and proviso were both
modified by striking out the words cor ma,
terlal."
The senate to-day adopted the conference
report on the anti ~polygamy bill by only
thirteen dissenting votes. Mr.. Hoar, the
only Republican who voted in the negative,
did so because the bill abolishes woman suf.
frage in Utah. The Democrats Who voted
against the bill opposed The measure On con-
stitutionaI grounds Aside from the general
argument that the law is oppressive and in
fringes the rights Of the citizens, the specific
charge is made that the provision relative to
the Mormon Emigration company Is a prac-
Uical coniscation of private property in vio-
latlon of the constitution in that the assets
OF this corporation are devoted to school
purposes and the corporation is practically
escheated to the state. To this the sup
porters of the bill reply that provision is
made for the return to the stockholders
Of the entire amount of their invest
ment and that it is the remainder only
which is devoted to school purposes.
TRANSACTED IN THE HOUSE
The senate amendments to the invalid pen
sion appropriation bill were nonconcurred
in and a conference ordered. Mr.. Weaver
Neb) called up the vetoed pension bill OF
Simmons W. Hart The house refused ia
pass the bill over the veto-142t to 90. The
house went into committee of the whole on
the senate amendments to the sundIy civil
bill, and 100 of the $50 pages of che bill
were disposed of. An evening session was
held for the consideration OF pension bIls
SENATE.
W AsHrNaToN, Feb. 19.-The president sent
two messages to the senate to-day, vetoing
two acts granting pensions to Charlotte
O'Neal and John Beed One proposed to
grant O pension to the widow of Richard
O'Neal, late colonel of the Twenty-sixth In
diana volunteers This is vetoed because
0'Neal, after his resignation, died OF a
disease not at all related to his military
service, and because the name is given in
correctly in the bill. In the case of John
Reed, the president states that Reed applied
for a pension on the ground that he was
mainly dependent for shpport on his son
John, who died in the service. The dead
soldiers mother had been granted a pension
on the statement that she was o widow. me
pension office refused Reeds application be-
cause he had abandoned his family in 1888.
The president concludes:
This case demonstrates the means employed
in attempts to cheat the government In appllca-
lions for pensions, too often successful Lhe
allegation OF 1877 Of the man who now passes
as the aged and dependent father OF a dead SOL
dier, the mother died In 1872, when at that
time her claim was pending for pension largely
based upon his abandonment; the afndayit oI
the man who testified that he sawSer dle IN
1872: the efronterv of this unworthy falner
renewing his claim after the detectlon
Of his fraud and the actual death Of
the mother, and the allegation OF the mo6ner
that she was q widow, when in fact she was an
abandoned wife, show the processes which enter
into these claims for pensions, and the boldness
With which pi9ns are sometimes concoctsd 70
rob the government by actually traahezing N
death, and imposing on the sacred sentiment 81
patriotism and national gratitude.
WAsHINGToN, Feb. 10.-The senate resumed
cers.dst alton Of the river and harbor appro-
priation bill Mr.. Edmunds made a point Of
order on section 8 (which provides for the
condemnation of land) IN the ground that II
was new legislation. The point of order was
sustained and the section was struck out
Mr.. Van Wyck moved to amend the item OK
$500, 900 for the Missouri river by making
1t read:
Continuing Improvement at Atchtson. b.
Joseph. Fort L~eavanworth reservation, arrow
Rock Kansas City. I'M Kansna and Miasouri. and